DigiMoD
On the 10th of December, our team members Annett Heft (Universität Tübingen, Freie Universität Berlin/Weizenbaum Institute), Kilian Buehling and Xixuan Zhang (both Freie Universität Berlin/Weizenbaum Institute) participated in the final event of the NEOVEX research project, which took place at the Representation of the State of Hamburg in Berlin. The event started with the presentation of the results […]
From November 26th to November 27th, Kilian Buehling (Freie Universität/Weizenbaum Institute) participated in a workshop about “Visual Aspects of Political Communication and Digital Platforms” organized by the Collegium Helveticum. The workshop was designed to create a dynamic interdisciplinary forum, bringing together researchers from diverse fields to explore the evolving challenges and opportunities in the discipline. […]
Two DigiMoD Team Members, Daniel Thiele (Freie Universität/Weizenbaum Institute) and Miriam Milzner (Freie Universität/Weizenbaum Institute), participated in a satellite event of the Association of Internet Researchers Conference (AoIR 2024) that took place at the University of Sheffield, UK. On October 29th, Daniel Thiele presented “Suspiciously similar. An embedding approach to capturing multimodal coordinated behavior,” co-authored with Miriam Milzner at […]
From November 7th to November 8th, the DigiMoD team participated in a workshop at the Weizenbaum Institute titled “Contextualizing Misinformation Research: Theoretical, Empirical, and Legal Frameworks” that was organized by Elizaveta Kuznetsova and Martha Stolze of the research group “Platform Algorithms and Digital Propaganda.” The recent workshop on mis- and disinformation in digital political communication […]
From October 24th to October 25th, the DigiMoD team joined a workshop the Weizenbaum Institute hosted titled “Generative AI, Digital Publics, and Data Access: Advancing Collaborative Research”. This international workshop brought together researchers from the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland Tech University and the Weizenbaum Institute. Through a combination of research presentations and breakout […]
During her fellowship in the DigiMoD Research Group, Dr. Fabienne Lind gave an interesting talk at the Weizenbaum Institute. On September 10th, she spoke on “Studying Global Issues: Accommodating Context and Language Diversity when Employing Computational Text Analysis.” Addressing and mitigating global issues, such as migration movements or climate change, necessitates collaborative efforts that extend […]